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View Poll Results: Which is your personal favourite Iain Banks book so far?

"Walking on Glass" is by far the most fascinating and inspiring novel I've ever read (by any author). The same goes in a way for "Complicity", though it is much more down-to-earth and shocking (the sperm-injection scene is exceptionally, eh, nasty). I also enjoyed "Garbadale" a lot.

P.s. I read Espedair St., then found out a while later that HE was the guy who wrote those sci-fi novels everyone was talking about. I nearly shat myself.

Weirdly, Espedair St. and his sci-fi stuff feel like they're written by a different person. Usually there's a sense of familiarity, but when I came to read PoG (first sci-fi of his that I'd read) I couldn't tell it was the same man who had written it. Maybe a man of equal writing talent and finesse, but not in any way similar. To me, that's pretty incredible.

"No! I must kill the demons" He shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons"
And then John was a zombie.